MrsMe Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 company? What do you do with your school areas when you have company? Especially to those who have a real school room in the dining room. It still looks good to those kids who visit, but it's still hard to keep them out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 We live in a very small house. There is no way I can hide my school stuff from company. We have 2 computer stations set up in the living room - our only gathering room in the house. Ds22 has all his college stuff piled on and around one station. Ds20 has his college stuff piled up on and around the other.:glare: The other three children keep their schoolbooks on a bookcase in the hallway. The two youngest keep their books in large dish tubs that can easily be toted when we have to go out for whatever reason. Those sit on one shelf of the bookcase. I also have about ten or so other bookcases located all through the house with extra school stuff and lots of readers, encyclopedias, resource books, and art supplies. The hallway is lined with maps and timelines. If a guest uses the bathroom, they will get a look at them on their way. Oh, well. We live here.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Our classroom in our dining room. I have three bookcases full of school material so there is no stashing that away. However the table can be ready in five minutes by moving the pencils and covering it with a tablecloth. We don't entertain much and we have an eat-in kitchen so I think we've the dining room as designed about twice in the last year. I swear when my ds grows up and is house hunting for himself he will look at a dining room complete with chandelier hanging and tell his lovely wife, "Look honey it already has a built in classroom." :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMe Posted April 30, 2009 Author Share Posted April 30, 2009 I think I worded it wrong. I don't care about the mess, LOL! I want to keep visiting children out of it. Is this an issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom-ninja. Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 I think I worded it wrong. I don't care about the mess, LOL! I want to keep visiting children out of it. Is this an issue? I'd like to know as well. Especially when the parent does not seem to care if their kids get in it even when asked not to. My answer so far is to simply not have these people over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Everyone I know knows I homeschool, so they're just going to have to see our school stuff. Love me, love my books! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Okay to answer your intended question, it's usually not an issue for us. We keep the school items separate from play things. My ds is old enough that we don't have many young children visiting but I wasn't above asking kids to stay out of the school stuff when he was younger. Seriously it's work material, I wouldn't tolerate a toddler getting into my dh's work files. I always had art supplies and non school books available for the kids. At his age if any of his friends came over and picked up a school book I might fall over from shock. ETA: I guess my response if the parent wasn't saying anything was "Aw sweetie, that's Z's school material. Why don't we find you some things you can play with." Redirect and refocus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricia Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 My schooling is in my room upstairs. Our shelves of books are also upstairs in the living room so no one has to look at them. Needless to say I spend a lot of time in my room.:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janainaz Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 I have a homeschool closet. I keep all my current school books and teachers manuals in rectangular, plastic bucket. I keep all the 3-ring binders on a shelf and file work weekly. The rest of our school supplies have plenty of room. I have cling on maps that I can stick anywhere. It's not a big closet, but there's not THAT much stuff. I never buy books that I can borrow and so I get all of our supplemental books (literature, science and history) from the library. I keep those in a wicker basket next to our sofa. This is our home and I don't want it to feel like a classroom for my kids. There is always learning taking place, but I don't want to sit and eat dinner and stare at a map of the world. Neither do they. You would never know I homeschool if you walked in my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMe Posted May 1, 2009 Author Share Posted May 1, 2009 See, I used to have all my stuff in the family room. We only have 3 in our family so it's not an issue. We don't really use the family room. But all the crayons and pencils and glue and paper and stuff were in rolling carts and I had the manipulatives high. I had chalkboards up and when I was expecting company, I'd turn the carts around so they weren't accessible and take away the chalk. But they always wanted the high stuff that looked fun and somewhere somebody would mark up the chalkboard with a marker. A few great armoires or lockable units would work great (like the other thread), so when they're open I can see everything I have and when they're closed I have no whining with other kids. I'd need pretty many though.:001_huh: I think that's the key. Nice lockable storage units! Anyway, having the room is like having a bowl of candy out and not letting the kids have any. ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylou Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I swear when my ds grows up and is house hunting for himself he will look at a dining room complete with chandelier hanging and tell his lovely wife, "Look honey it already has a built in classroom." :D This cracks me up! Our classroom is the formal dining room complete with chandelier! I have to admit, it gives good light! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 company? What do you do with your school areas when you have company? Especially to those who have a real school room in the dining room. It still looks good to those kids who visit, but it's still hard to keep them out of it. Bookshelves. Everything went in bookshelves, and, later, a closet/pantry. We didn't have a separate room, so any Official School Stuff had to be done in common areas--i.e., the kitchen table--which really wasn't that bad; it required me to keep things picked up. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I babysit a friend's K'er and preschooler in my home once a week. And they don't stay out of DD's stuff, but it's usually the board games and blocks and dress up stuff that winds up everywhere. I mostly try to watch and head them off when they go for the games, because they just scatter them rather than play with them. The rest, well, I'm fine with them getting into. They've never tried to get into the curricula! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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